By Richard Ray: Inspiration comes in all forms. I am not a big college football fan, but games dominate much of television the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving. I was in the gym and a television was on helping me pass the time on a stationary bike. Going no where in a hurry is […]
Once a year, collectively as a nation, we designate a day to give thanks. Regardless of the history behind the holiday’s formation, whether it was Pilgrims giving thanks for their first harvest or George Washington and the nation’s new Congress proclaiming often 3 or 4 days of thanks in celebration of military or other victories. […]
By Richard Ray: I have never understood people who were resistant to change. More specifically I mean positive change that would allow growth, one bettering themselves or just positive progress in the world as we know it. Let me first acknowledge the obvious, which is as a Person Of Color (POC) in the United […]
By Richard Ray: My life is so far from perfect. Honestly, even people without financial cares would probably admit that no life ever achieves perfection. I have close relationships with loved ones, family and friends that are at times fractured and strained. Often the challenges of serial entrepreneurship minus never having an actual guaranteed […]
By Richard Ray: #Me Too needs to be a movement. The sad truth is that more people than you could ever imagine have been victimized by sexual assault. For far too long people who have been the victims of sexual assault have lived in silence… Silence in part out of fear… Silence in part […]
By Richard Ray: You have zero control on so many elements of your early development. You have no control over what continent, country, city you are born and raised. You have no control over who your parents are… if one or both are in your life and positive and supportive figures. You have no […]
By Richard Ray: With the very notable exception of cash, quality almost always rules over quantity. We increasingly live in a world where people measure self worth by the number of Facebook Friends, Instagram and Twitter Followers as well as Snapchat views they have accumulated. If you are using the Internet as a business […]
By Richard Ray: On September 1st, 8 year old Dante Daniels from Sacramento, California was brutally beaten to death with a hammer by his mother’s ex-boyfriend. 23 years old Deandre Chaney Jr. was performing a criminal sexual act on Deandre’s 7 year old sister when the boy tried to intervene. The children were left […]
By Richard Ray: I often talk about how lucky and blessed I am in my life. Hell, its such a prevailing theme, my dog is even named Lucky. I am not superstitious or a gambling man. I am not someone that lives a charmed life free of all worries or tribulations. I am someone […]
By Richard Ray: Too often my features have started off talking about the divisiveness within the United States. Unfortunately the subject is all too real and needs to be discussed in context of talks of change, greater empathy and social justice for all within the US. However, when tragedy strikes America, like the one […]
